Rob Farley

Rob Rob Farley has been consulting in IT since completing a Computer Science degree with first class honours in 1997. Before moving to Adelaide, he worked in consultancies in Melbourne and London. He runs the development department in one of Australia's leading IT firms, as well as doing database application consultancy and training. He heads up the Adelaide SQL Server User Group, and holds several Microsoft certifications.

Rob has been involved with Microsoft technologies for most of his career, but has also done significant work with Oracle and Unix systems. His preferred database is SQL Server and his preferred language is C#. Recently he has been involved with Microsoft Learning in the US, creating and reviewing new content for the next generation of Microsoft exams.

Over the years, Rob's clients have included BP Oil, OneLink Transit, Accenture, Avanade, Australian Electorial Commission, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the Royal Borough of Kingston, Help The Aged, Unisys, Department of Treasury and Finance (Vic), National Mutual, the Bible Society and others.

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20 April 2005

Graphical tools for writing SQL queries

Someone commented: But if it weren't for graphical tools, I wouldn't have ever been able to conceptualise a join

Fair enough. In which case, learn about joins, and then stop using your graphical tools. Once you know the difference between an inner join and a left/right join, then leave the graphical joins alone. I reckon the only use for graphical tools is to avoid typos in table names.

Posted by Rob Farley at 5:44 pm